Subway Mouse, Boy O’Boy take Schwartz prizes

Barbara Reid’s picture book The Subway Mouse and Brian Doyle’s children’s novel Boy O’Boy are the winners of this year’s Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Children’s Book Awards. Reid won in the picture book category, while ... Read More »

May 11, 2004

Indigo’s SAP mission accomplished?

By Q&Q Staff

Indigo’s self-imposed blackout period — three weeks without any new inventory — came to an end yesterday, suggesting that the conversion to the chain's new SAP inventory management system has been completed.If all went according ... Read More »

May 10, 2004 | Filed under: Industry news

Option on film rights for Bishop-Stall’s Down to This

By Q&Q Staff

The film rights to Down to This, Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall’s account of the 10 months he spent living in Toronto’s Tent City, have been optioned for three years to producer Virginia Rankin at Toronto’s Shaftesbury Films.down-to-this/> ... Read More »

May 10, 2004

Books love short shorts

By Q&Q Staff

Judith Keenan knows what a film adaptation can do for a novel. “Not that I’m comparing us to Lord of the Rings,” laughs the founder and executive producer of BookShorts, a multimedia project dedicated to ... Read More »

May 10, 2004

Doctorow and Kuitenbrouwer among Gleed nominees

By Q&Q Staff

The Writers' Union of Canada unveiled the shortlist Monday for the sixth annual Danuta Gleed Literary Award, which recognizes the best first collection of short fiction by a Canadian. The jury was composed of Nino ... Read More »

May 10, 2004

Celebrating Campbell with Kay and de Lint

By Q&Q Staff

Two of Canada's most popular writers of speculative fiction, Guy Gavriel Kay and Charles de Lint, have been invited to appear at a conference in Atlanta next month marking the centenary of the birth of ... Read More »

May 10, 2004

Arthur Ellis nominees

By Q&Q Staff

Nominees for the Arthur Ellis Awards, Canada’s major crime writing prizes, were announced in six categories last week. The winners will be named at a ceremony in Toronto on June 9. The annual Ellis Awards ... Read More »

May 10, 2004

Lansens’ second book accepted at Little, Brown

By Q&Q Staff

Based on a synopsis and 100 pages, Little, Brown in the U.S. has picked up the second half of Lori Lansens' mid-six-figure two-book deal. The Girls is a novel about the lives of conjoined twins. ... Read More »

May 7, 2004

Waterloo’s One Book is Ricci’s The Lives of Saints

By Q&Q Staff

The Lives of Saints by Nino Ricci has been selected as the Kitchener-Waterloo region's One Book. A jury of 15 made the choice after choosing a shortlist of eight books from an original 200, saysthe-lives-of-saints/> ... Read More »

May 6, 2004

Longtime Fenn VP Howard moving to Simon & Schuster

By Q&Q Staff

Robert Howard is leaving H.B. Fenn and Company, where he was most recently the vice-president of sales and marketing, to become Simon & Schuster Canada’s new vice-president of sales.Howard has 17 years experience in the ... Read More »

May 6, 2004

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